Death Foretold

Life is a near-death experience. - George Carlin

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain

I know I can't cheat death, but I can cheat old age. - Darwin Deason

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

If it weren't for the olive, I'd starve to death. - Unknown

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. - Red Skelton

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

The tragedy of Mormonism is, a single death makes a dozen widows. - American Saying

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. - Samuel Butler

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. - Dan Rather

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. - Fulton J. Sheen

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. - Omar Brailey

A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude. - Ambrose Bierce

Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

The world can't end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the other of us has to go. - Oscar Wilde

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. - Mel Brooks

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life. - Craig D Loundsbrough

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

For death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - I Corinthians 15:55

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? - Woody Allen

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C S Lewis

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen